The size and spin of black holes can reveal how they are formed and where they were born. You can tell a lot about a human being's ancestry ... University of Cardiff, has discovered that the ...

Astronomers have seen a quiet supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy erupt jets of ultrahot gas, marking the first time a black hole ever "switched on" within human lifetimes. Observations ...

from Earth and has been making observations from that vantage point since 2022. On April 6, 2024, the JWST detected a 40-minute flare from the black hole. The telescope's observations backed up ...

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"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...

The black holes rip the stars apart and consume their stellar debris — becoming more massive, Northwestern explained. This increases their gravitational pull and draws them together as they orbit..

It's a dark day for Super Earth. In a completely unexpected, unpredictable turn of events, the black hole that's occupied Helldivers 2's galaxy for the better part of a year has collided with Angel's ...

NASA has discovered two black holes colliding, which has sent shockwaves within the scientific community. In order to detect this, they utilised the James Webb Space Telescope, making it one of the ...

(For a quasar-powering supermassive black hole, that is. It still has a mass equivalent to 450 million suns). Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick "Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive ...

"because we're trying to understand how the mass of a black hole has grown over time. By looking at the spin of the black hole, you're essentially looking at its fossil record." So what does that ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the result of a new form of "black hole archeology" that links black hole ...